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spiralganglion on Jan 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year annive...

This just looks like typical game dev code to me. You treat the code like a scratchpad, exploring the space and looking for things that work well. Lots of things written once and never touched again, lots of things written with magic numbers because that makes it easier to delete.

tudelo on Jan 10, 2020 [–]

Whenever I look at game source code, I start to realize how all of the crazy speedrun glitches exist

exikyut on Jan 10, 2020 | [–]

Especially on limited platforms of old, where crazy hacks were necessary to get the game to fit in the cartridge/RAM/CPU speed.

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